e-Infrastructures are always about development of
new knowledge, but the impact of this to the development of economies
and societies in emerging economies is potentially a much steeper
growth curve.
Education or health applications may need to be more
targeted towards ensuring primary care or education in rural areas for
example, rather than collaborating with developed world researchers in
pioneering new drugs, or analysing patient data. In a sense, the
benefits of adopting e-Infrastructures are whatever we want them to be.
Each region will have a different strategic priority for
e-Infrastructures applications, but the result will always be - if the
planning and implementation is effective – societal and economic
development.
For the aforementioned reasons the 2nd BELIEF
International symposium will focus on "e-Infrastructures and
Sustainability Development".
The event will be opened by
representatives from the Government of São Paulo and from the EC
Delegation to Brazil. It will engage experts from the areas of eHealth,
eEducation, and eScience in order to discuss and understand in deeper
detail what has already been done in terms of sustainable development
by adopting e-Infrastructures and the necessary future steps to be
addressed and taken into account by policy makers and decisions makers.
Visit the event webpage to register and for more information
